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 | "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude
even than by mental capacities." | |
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Found in the topic Business.
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| "He turn"d his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his
bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for
evermore."" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The rose is fairest when "t is budding new, And hope is brightest
when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash"d with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm"d in tears." | |
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Found in the topic Hope.
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| "Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the
bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever!" | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "When a man hasn"t a good reason for doing a thing, he has a good
reason for letting it alone." | |
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Found in the topic Indecision.
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| "Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to
deceive." | |
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Found in the topic Debt.
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| "O!, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that "s
broken!" | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and
filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of
paltry decorum." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Bluid is thicker than water." | |
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Found in the topic Blood.
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| "Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended; Come as the waves
come, when Navies are stranded." | |
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Found in the topic Slow.
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| "O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and
anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" | |
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Found in the topic Woe.
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| "And better had they ne"er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to
scorn." | |
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Found in the topic Doubt.
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| "Just at the age "twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and
speech is truth." | |
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Found in the topic Adolescence.
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| "For ne?er was lost on poet?s ear: A simple race! They waste their
toil For the vain tribute of a smile." | |
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Found in the topic Smile.
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| "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world
proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a
name." | |
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Found in the topic Glory.
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| "What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it
runs back to a successful soldier?" | |
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Found in the topic Europe.
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| "Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long
polar frost of indifference." | |
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Found in the topic Affection.
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| "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath
said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne?er within him
burn?d, As home his footsteps he hath turn?d From wandering on a foreign
strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel
raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his
wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The
wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,
doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor?d, and unsung." | |
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Found in the topic Patriotism.
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| "As old as the hills" | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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